Combined receipt and envelop.



R. A. KELLER.' COMBINED RECEIPT AND ENVELOP.

APPLICATION FI'LED sun 25. 1914.

' Patented Jan.11, 1916.

RECEIVED FRom A B THE SFWIE BEING RN FULLPEWMENT FOR FALL CLflIMS 70 #AVABLE omx T0 PERSON NRMED NUT NEqoTmBLE garcnenn A. KELLER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

Application filed $111125, 1914. Serial No. 853,024.

To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD A. KEILER, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful-Improvements in Combined Receipts and Envelops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to combinedreceipts and envelops. In delivering pay envelops, it is customary to require a receipt to be given for the contents of the envelop. The, present practice is to make out or fill in the receipts and the envelops separately and to then distribute the receipts, and upon presentation of the receipts the envelops are delivered. In

this practice, errors sometimes occur in making out envelops from the entries on the receipts or vice versa and furthermore considerable time is consumed in separately filling in the necessary identifying memoranda on the envelop and the receipt.

'One object of the invention is to provide a combined receipt and envelop by which the writing on the receipt will be reproduced on the envelop by means of a sheet of carbon and thereby the work of separately filling in the identifying data on the'envelop and corresponding data on the receipt will be avoided.- Absolute accuracy is attained so that.

the identifying data on the envelop and receipt will, at all times, correspond.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved combined envelop and .receipt.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspec tive of a'combined'envelop and receipt embodying the invention. Fig. 2' is a view, showing the receipt and envelop in extended position and before being folded for use.

Fig. 3 is a view of the opposite face of the same. Fig. 4 is a section showing the device I folded and in ositionassumed when the re-- ceipt and cave op are being filled in.

The device is formed of a single piece of paper at ,one end of which an envelop 6.. ;ifs formed by folding a portion 7 of the pap er and flaps 8 over a portion ofthe sheet and securing them in the usual manner to form the envelop 6. A flap- 9 for closing the envelop is formed by a portion of the sheet of paper and is gummed as at 1O, so that when the sheet is severed on a line of perforations 11, the flap 9 may be folded over the portion 7 of the envelop and secured thereon toseal the envelop and its contents. A portion of the sheet forms a receipt slip or ticket which has printed thereon a form for a receipt as indicated at 14 and has a line or space 15 for an identifying character, a line or space 16 for the name ofthe person to whom the envelop is to be delivered, a line or space 16 for the amountof wages and a line or place 17 for the signature of the person in acknowledgment of the receipt of the envelop and its contents.

The inventlo'n is shown as particularly adapted for pay envelops and receipts and the receipt-form 14 is printed thereon together with a space 18 for indicating the.

date for which the wages are being paid,

' and also a table indicating the time for labor for which payment is being made. I The face of the envelop has a line 20 corresponding to a line or space 15 on the receipt, a line or space 21 corresponding to the line 16 of the receipt and a line or space 22 corresponding to the, line or space 16 on the receipt. When the receipt is folded on the line of perforations 11 over the face of the envelop 6, the spaces or lines 15, 16 and.16 will register with andoverlie the'lines or spaces 20, 21 and 22 on the envelop so that if a sheet of carbon is interposed between the sheet and the envelop, the identifying number, name and amount when written on the receipt will bereproduced on the envelop. After the en-: velop and receipt have thus been filledin', the receipt is severed from the closing flap of the envelop on the line of perforations 11, at whichpoint the sheet isperforated. The receipts are then delivered to the workmen and the correct amount, corresponding to the envelop 6, having thecorresponding' number, name and amount written thereon and containing pay of the person identified andin the amount indicated on the receipt and envelop, to the presentor of the receipt.

If desired, the dateof presentation of the.

receipt and payment may be stamped on the I place indicate at 27.

The invention thus exemplifies a combined envelop and receipt constructed so that an impression of the receipt may be made upon one face of the envelop corresponding to the identifying and other data placed on the receipt, whereby errors, such as result from placing the data separately on the envelop and the receipt, are entirely avoided. lfhe time consumed is materially lessened in this work, and, in places where many employees must be paid, there is a very material saving in time as well as saving in trouble resulting from errors which sometimes ocour.

The combined envelop and receipt is formed of a single piece of paper, so that it may be produced at a low cost.-

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claims Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thils described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:- I

1. The combination of an envelop, having a closing flap at one side, of a severable slip extending from the free edge of said flap and foldable over one face of the envelop while said flap is open, so that an impression of the matter Written on said slip may be made on the envelop upon the interposition of a reproducing element, the face of the envelop receiving the impression and the outer face of the slip having printed thereon similar identifying data disposed to register when the slip is folded over the envelop.

2. The combination with an envelop having a closing flap at one side, of a slip extending from the free edge of said flap and foldable over one face of the envelop While said flap is open, so that an impression of the matter written on the slip may be made on the envelop upon the interposition of a reproducing element, the face of the envelop receiving the impression and the other face of said slip having printed thereon similar identifying data disposed to register when the slip is folded over the envelop, a line of perforations being formed between the slip and the flap of the envelop.

3. The combination with an envelop, having a closing flap at one side, of a severable slip extending from the free edge of said flap and foldable over one face of the envelop While said flap is open, so that, an impression of the matter written on the slip may be made on the envelop upon the interposition of a reproducing element, the face of the envelop receiving the impression and the outer face of the slip having printed thereon identifying data disposed to registerv when the slip is folded over the envelop, the flap having a gummed margin adjacent the p RICHARD A. KELLER. Witnesses:

MILDRED STUMPF, KATHARINE Gammon. 

